The demand for reliable condition monitoring systems on rotating machinery for power generation is continuously increasing due to a wider use of wind power as an energy source, which requires expertise in the diagnostics of these systems. An alternative to the limited availability of diagnostics and maintenance experts in the wind energy sector is to use unsupervised machine learning algorithms as a support tool for condition monitoring. The way condition monitoring systems can employ unsupervised machine learning algorithms consists on prioritizing the assets to monitor via the number of anomalies detected in the vibration signals of the rolling element bearings. Previous work has focused on the detection of anomalies using features taken directly from the time or frequency domain of the vibration signals to determine if a machine has a fault. In this work, I detect outliers using features derived from encoded vibration signals via sparse coding with dictionary learning. I investigate multiple outlier detection algorithms and evaluate their performance using different features taken from the sparse representation. I show that it is possible to detect an abnormal behavior on a bearing earlier than reported fault dates using typical condition monitoring systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ltu-76592 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Al-Kahwati, Kammal |
| Publisher | Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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